Charles Thomas Ackley Civil War Diaries CollectionOne hundred and eighteen letters from Charles Thomas Ackley, mostly to his wife in Marble Rock, Iowa. Also included are newspaper clippings, brief biographies of some of the men in the Seventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and historical commentary.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Eileen Albaugh papersJunior high school teacher who taught in Tipton and Wellsburg, Iowa, and died of polio.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Albertson Family PapersCorrespondence reflecting pioneer life in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Montana.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Herbert W. Albrecht National Farmers Organization CollectionFarmer and member of the NFO. The collection includes official contracts, annual reports, pamphlets, etc., of the NFO. It also includes some copies of two of their publications, the Newsletter and the News Flash.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Nathaniel G. Alcock PapersEstablished the Department of Urology in 1923 and served as head until his retirement in 1949. Correspondence, photographs, committee reports.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Ebenezer Alden PapersStudent at Andover Theological Seminary, member of the Iowa band, Congregational minister in Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa, and Marshfield, Massachusetts. Reports, letters, and student papers.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Alembic Press Archive RecordsA significant archive, entire and extant, from one of the most prolific and independent of British fine presses, these documents are a record of the processes of hand printing, publishing, and typecasting undertaken by Claire and David Bolton.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Archie Alphonse Alexander PapersEngineer and governor of the Virgin Islands. Subject files, correspondence, speeches, clippings, etc. relating to his career as an engineer, diplomat, and university trustee.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

George Elmer Allan Magic Lantern Slide CollectionGeorge Allan was a minister in Mississippi who used slides to accompany his sermons. The collection includes 1855 magic lantern slides plus 100 2x2 slides; also projector with attachment for film strip projection and a number of film strips.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Allen Motor Company RecordsRecords of the oldest auto dealership in Iowa, including financial records, newsletters, and photographs.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Arthur Francis Allen PapersEditor of the Sioux City Journal. Primarily correspondence, with speeches, clippings, and a scrapbook on Abraham Lincoln.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Benita Allen papersRussian immigrant recalls her childhood in Russia , World War I and the 1917 revolution.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

(Edwin) Lee Allen Card Paintings CollectionMr. Allen worked with Grant Wood and muralist Diego Rivera. From 1937 to 1976, Allen was a medical illustrator at the University of Iowa Hospitals. This collection consists of the drawings, mostly on 5 x 7 cards, that accompanied his bookÂ 'A Hole in My Vision: An Artist's View of His Own Macular Degeneration'.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Hilda Ellyson Allen papersThe papers consist largely of correspondence between Hilda and George Allen and their three children and cover a broad range of family, social and political issues.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Sewell E. Allen PapersAttorney and Iowa state legislator. Subject files and correspondence concerning his business, family and political career. The bulk of the papers consists of correspondence dealing with business conditions during the 1920s and WWII, politics, and family life.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

William B. Allison PapersU.S. Senator and Representative from Iowa. Primarily correspondence from his years in the House and Senate. Spanning a half century the topics range from Indian affairs to Oklahoma statehood, banking to the Panama Canal, and Republican Party politics to railroads.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

American National Red Cross Johnson County Chapter RecordsAmerican National Red Cross, Johnson County Chapter. Records, including Executive Committee minutes, financial papers, and other miscallaneous papers; and records of their interaction with the Community Givers, which later became the United Way.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Osborn Andreas papersLiterary critic, industrial engineer, cost accountant and president of Honeymead Product Co. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Collection contains two manuscripts and includes the master proof for Joseph Conrad: A Study in Non-conformity.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Waldemar ArgowUnitarian minister in Cedar Rapids. Holdings consist of the printer's copy of his What Do Religious Liberals Believe?Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Sven Armens PapersProfessor of English and published poet. Manuscripts.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Merle Armitage PapersSet designer, impresario, co-founder and manager of the Los Angeles Grand Opera Association, president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, art director of Look and Quick magazines, and book designer. Correspondence, typescripts of Accent on Life and George Gershwin: Man and Legend, and files on other projects.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Robert Plant Armstrong PapersPersonal papers of the well-known scholar of African art and author of The Affecting Presence: An Essay in Humanistic Anthropology.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Artifacts of the Eternal Network PapersArtworks and other documentation related to a 1997 exhibition at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. Many Fluxus artists were included in this exhibition.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Artists Television Network RecordsVideo by and about artists assembled for broadcast on the New York City cable networks between 1976 and 1984. The project was coordinated by Jaime Davidovich and the collection includes the cablecast material, in many cases edited in various ways for any of several anthology shows, as well as paper records. A portion of the collection has been re-recorded and is available in VHS format; a few pieces have been transcribed to DVD; and a growing number have been re-recorded digitally in DVCam and DVD versions.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Artwords and Bookworks PapersCo-curated by Judith Hoffberg and Joan Hugo, Artwords and Bookworks was one of the largest exhibition of artists' books and ephemera to take place during the 1970s. Comprised of experimental works by approximately six hundred contributors, the exhibition presented a diverse and provocative sampling of this alternative art form.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

ATCA Artists' Works and Correspondence Files CollectionThis ATCA collection brings together mail art, correspondence, photographs, slides, compact discs, show announcements/posters, writings, and other ephemera related to or by various artists.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

ATCA Periodicals and Zines CollectionThis ATCA collection brings together journals, newspapers, zines, and similar formal and informal periodicals that are art-related or have artistic merit. The range of subjects is broad and include political and cultural issues, gender and sexuality questions, as well as music, film, poetry, and religion.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

ATCA Rubber Stamp Art CollectionMiscellaneous printed materials (primarily catalogs) concerning rubber stamp art. The majority of the materials in this collection were acquired by artist, author, and archivist John Held Jr. (born 1947) from William Picasso Gaglione (born 1943).Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Edith Reed Atkinson papersSinger and radio-script editor from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Atkinson performed in a song-and-dance act with her brothers Wallace and Cecil Reed from 1935 to 1944.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Amy Sophia Auer papersPhotocopied memoir of the Olson and Auer families who emigrated from Norway in the nineteenth century and settled in Northwood, Iowa.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Nellie Aurner papersProfessor, dean, and author. This collection contains Ms. Aurner's unpublished translations of the dedications of Matteo Bandello as well as her research on Bandello.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Frank Aydelotte PapersEducator and member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry concerning the Palestinian question. Correspondence, speeches, memoranda, etc., and a copy of the committee report.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Myrtle Kitchell Aydelotte papersProfessor of nursing,1957-1976, dean of the College of Nursing, 1949-1957, and director of nursing for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics,1968-1976.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

William O. Aydelotte PapersUniversity of Iowa professor of history, 1947-1996. One of the first historians elected to the National Academy of Sciences.Repository: University of Iowa Archives